On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:07:10PM +0100, Michael Polak wrote: > > Ok, this means, that it would make sense to release new Arachne with > this quick and dirty patch (but only optional, as Arachne.cfg paramater, > please... if you learn how to do this, you are ready to take party in > future open source Arachne development ;-) you have to add this flag to > user_interface structure (uiface.h), and to config.c (analysing > Arachne.CFG... BTW, it would help to optimize this parsing, I can > remember now... maybe someone can forward this to Bernie ;) > > I was still too lazy/busy (choose whatever you like - it's state of the > mind anyway ;-) to setup CVS with cleaned-up portable release of > Arachne, with IKN format removed and all icons converted to BMP (to > allow easy definiton of browser skins...)... > The most important things first ;-) I need fast, good looking browser for Linux. It takes only some minutes to setup CVS.
Main parts of www browser are HTML rendering engine and networking stuff. Networking could be done by 'libcurl'. libcurl is available for Unices and Windows. And even for 32bit DOS it could be ported. HTML rendering in Arachne is quite good, although it could be better. It would be nice if other gimmicks such as Java, JavaScript, plugins be done. I've got some ideas how to do it. For example: JavaScript could be translated on fly into Perl or Python and embedded interpreter (compiler) do rest of work. I think it will be easier to bring all Arachne fans to Linux than do for DOS that what is already done for Linux, or could be done easy. WF
